A/N: Thank you again for the awesome reviews! Like I said, this was very fun to write, but the next chapter will be even more fun, evil giggle.

And of course, you should have known by now that I don't own Criminal Minds. In the next chapter you will see how this screws up the timeline set forth by the real writers, so I obviously don't have any control over the real show.

The next morning was met with little anticipation from the team. The seven cases that they were going through for the umpteenth time were not turning up anything. Everyone was getting snippy and restless, which suited Reid just fine because then no one would notice that he moody for a different reason.

"Let's face it Hotch. The answer is not here." Morgan finally said at their lunch break.

"There has to be something." Hotch said tiredly.

"If there is, it must be invisible." Emily replied.

"Are we sure there aren't any other links between the girls?" Hotch asked, looking right at Reid.

"Not that we can find. The all belong to different groups, have different pastimes, and they looked different. They did all know each other, and they all lived at the same lake. The fact that they are associated to two different towns and schools suggests even more so that they had less to do with each other. Lake Cooper is still the connection." Reid replied.

Hotch sighed. "I don't know then." He finally said looking at Gideon who quietly thinking.

However, Gideon remained that way, as did everyone else, during lunch. There was nothing to say. They returned to their work. Nothing happened until mid-afternoon when JJ was called out to talk with a local cop.

"Uh, Hotch we might have a minor problem." JJ said when she returned a few minutes later. They left the room.

"Back off?" Hotch repeated stunned.

JJ and he were in the bullpen of the Watertown PD talking to Detective Stanten.

"Not back off, exactly." He replied. "It's just that you're interfering with some of our investigations."

"What do you mean by that?" Hotch asked curtly.

"Someone may have recognized Officer Heiden." Detective Stanten replied annoyed.

"Is he all right?" Hotch demanded.

"So far, but now the undercover work he's put in might be useless. We won't know until tonight." Stanten replied.

"He hid DNA and other evidence from us!" Hotch said nearly yelling.

"Are you insinuating that he may have deserved to be recognized? How dare you!" Stanten said fiercely.

"How dare you, a local cop, try to tell a federal agent to back off!" Hotch yelled.

The bullpen suddenly became very quiet.

"Some federal agent you are. Two girls are missing and you aren't even out there looking for them!" Stanten spat back.

"Hotch!" JJ said, restraining him. She knew Hotch's I'm might kill someone look. "Sir, we are doing out best to find the man who kidnapped the girls because we believe that will lead us to them." JJ said in her negotiating voice.

"What good is it doing?" came another voice from behind JJ.

They turned around to see Anna's and Sara's parents coming in. Anna's mother continued to speak.

"Our daughters are still gone." She said.

"Ma'am, we are truly sorry for that and we are doing our best to get them back-" JJ tried again.

"Oh really? Then where are they? Huh? Why is it that our two are gone, while all the other parents don't have to worry anymore?" Anna's mother screamed.

"Ma'am, please calm down." JJ started to say.

By now, the commotion had leaked into the conference room and the rest of the BAU team had ventured out into the bullpen.

"And Kristy? She's fine!" Mrs. Shaken screamed.

"What about me?"

Kristy had picked the absolute worst time to come down to the station. Anna's mother turned around shocked that she was there. Suddenly her nostrils flared, and she took off after Kristy screaming things such as 'not fair' and 'ungrateful little girl'. Thankfully, about 20 men jumped down on her before she could hurt Kristy. Morgan, being the strongest of the bunch restrained her while Reid and Emily went over to Kristy.

"What the hell?" Kristy said.

They moved her to a different room so she didn't have to keep hearing Mrs. Shaken's screams

"Kristy are you all right?" Emily asked.

"Yeah I think so." Kristy replied.

She suddenly began to tremble and sat down quickly.

Reid immediately went over to her.

"I'm going to be fine." Kristy said adamantly. "It just shocked me."

"Kristy it's okay." Reid said.

"What was going on?" Kristy asked again.

Reid shook his head.

"I'll go find out." Emily said.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Reid asked again.

"I think so. I'm just not used to being attacked by pissed off mothers." Kristy replied.

Reid smiled and relaxed. He knew she was going to be fine.

"I should have come down earlier." Kristy kept going.

"Why didn't you?" Reid asked.

"Well, I tried to go back to go school today. I was about to walk in the building, and I saw all of my classmates staring at me. Their looks felt like they were accusing me, like because of me, Cora, Ginger, Anna and Ginger were gone. Sort of like Anna's mom. I chickened out and asked to have the day off again. I got the whole you're missing too much school and we'll have to speak to your mother lecture, but they let me go. I went home and just started crying. I feel so guilty. I finally decided it would be best to come back here." Kristy said.

"Kristy you are not guilty." Reid said. "You didn't do anything wrong. Those kids were wrong to think that you should be blamed for something like this."

Kristy smiled. "Thanks." She said quietly.

Emily returned.

"Okay, as it turns out, the local PD is getting a little mad with us." She started. "They want us to back off a bit because their whole bust thing might now be ruined."

"What? That's crazy!" Reid exclaimed.

"Yeah, I know." Emily said. "And as we found out, Anna's and Stacey's parents felt the same way. They want us to either find the girls soon or they are threatening to make us leave."

"We're federal agents. We have more authority." Reid said dumbstruck.

Emily shrugged. "JJ, Hotch and Gideon are trying to sort it out. Morgan and I are going to keep going through the files."

Reid nodded, and Emily left. He turned to Kristy.

"I'm sorry. They usually aren't quite this stupid and hot-headed." Kristy said.

"The cops?" Reid inquired.

"Yeah. If you guys weren't here, they probably wouldn't even be close to finding the girls. I mean, someone in my step-family went missing last summer, and they hardly did a thing! It was us who organized search parties, and it was us who found him. Those girls would be screwed if it weren't for you guys." Kristy said. "Anyway, where did we leave off?"

"Uh, I don't remember. We'll just start off with some other things." Reid said as he sat down next to her. "What were you thinking about before you were drugged?" Reid asked.

"Before? Well, a lot of things. I was thinking about the movies I had watched that night, I was thinking about my crush, thinking about what was going to happen at school the next day." Kristy listed.

"Anything else?" Reid asked.

"You want specific? Okay, I was thinking about the really freaky parts of Silent Hill that were probably going to keep me until two. I was thinking about how to ask my crush Alecc out. There were a million things going through my head."

"You thought about all of that in the two blocks you walked before being attacked?" Reid asked.

"We had a couple energy drinks, I was fairly hyper." Kristy retorted. Then she laughed. "And I was also thinking about my stupid A- in Geometry."

Suddenly, Kristy stood up straight. Her eyes became wide and she began to shake again.

"Kristy?" Reid asked nervously. "Kristy are you okay?"

He tried to shake her, but her body was frozen almost in shock.

"Kristy!" Reid said.

She then collapsed to the floor.

"Come on, wake up!" Reid said. Kristy was lying on the floor, cold and unmoving.

Reid had called for help and Morgan and Emily were with him. Emily was calling the ambulance while they tried to revive her.

"What happened?" Morgan asked.

"I don't know." Reid said. "She was fine one moment, and then she passed out."

Then, many more people walked in including the rest of the team and other local cops.

Gideon knelt down beside Reid and Morgan while Hotch and JJ talked to the local cops.

Reid wasn't completely paying attention to their conversation, but from what he heard, the local cops were trying to blame them for Kristy passing out.

Suddenly her eyelids fluttered a bit.

"Kristy? You okay?" Morgan asked. Everyone became quiet.

She opened her eyelids all the way and looked around.

"Did… did I pass out?" She asked quietly. Everyone exchanged looks.

"Yeah. Are you all right?" Reid asked again.

"Dang it." Kristy said as she pushed herself up.

"Kristy stay down, it's all right." Everyone seemed to say at once.

"I'm fine." She said above them.

"This wouldn't have happened if you people weren't here." Stanten suddenly said.

This broke out a verbal fight between the BAU team and the local cops. However, Reid didn't join. He put his arm around Kristy and helped her sit up.

"What do you need to know?" She asked quietly.

"What do you mean?" Reid asked.

"The memory came back." Kristy said. "What do you need to know?"

Reid was taken aback by what she had said. The fight was growing louder.

"Uh, anything that makes him different from everyone else." Reid said. She nodded and closed her eyes. "But, Kristy it's okay you don't need to-"

She suddenly grabbed his right wrist.

"He has a tattoo. Right here on the front side." She said, indicating his wrist. "It's red-ish, and says something but I don't know what."

Reid was so shocked that he completely forgot about everything going on around him. Suddenly, two EMT's pushed him out of the way as everyone else was taken out of the room. The BAU team went back to their conference room.

"What happened?" Hotch asked.

"She had the memory." Reid said quietly.

Everyone stared at him.

"You sure?" Hotch asked.

"She was able to tell me that he has a red tattoo with writing on his wrist." Reid said, excitement growing in his voice.

It hit him; they might be able to solve the case.

"I'll call the hospital. See if they know anyone with tattoos." Emily said.

"We'll go down there. If Kristy's there and the unsub happens to be as well, she can ID him." Gideon said.

"You will not." Stanten said. "We are having to send a girl to the hospital because of you."

"Don't tell us what to do and not do." JJ said. No longer was she trying to play nice. The cops had pissed the team off and they were paying for it. "We are federal agents who are on the job. We are going to do what we can to solve this case."

"Fine, go down to the hospital. But stay away from her." Stanten said.

"Why? It's not like you exactly cared about her." Reid suddenly said.

Everyone was shocked that it was Reid who spoke up.

"What do you mean?" Stanten said.

"The thing that set off the memory causing her to faint was a school subject. If we hadn't intervened, she would have gone on her daily business, not knowing what could happen, and she would have passed out in school. They probably would have thought she was going through a flashback that was created in her head. If it wasn't for us, no one would know that the man she saw in her flashback was really the unsub. Now, we can get this guy, and help two other girls." Reid said, breathing heavily by the time he had finished. "You never would have been able to do that."

"Just stay away from her. Then you'll do no more damage." Stanten said, not knowing how to respond to what Reid has said.

Everyone looked around tiredly.

"Everyone else besides JJ and I should probably go to the hospital. We'll try to sort out this mess." Hotch said.

At the hospital, Gideon and Emily took one half of the departments, while Morgan and Reid took the other half. They were going to talk to all the department heads and see if they could ID anyone.

"It's been a crazy day." Morgan commented as they started to walk down to the ER.

Reid nodded. He craned his neck, trying to see Kristy.

"Reid, the cops will be really pissed if they see you with her." Morgan said.

"Morgan, I don't really care. Kristy deserves to know if we get him. Besides, we haven't done anything wrong. You and Hotch followed all of the stipulations for meeting with Heiden. They can't say it's because of something we did." Reid said.

They approached the front desk.

"Hi. We're from the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit and we were wondering if we could ask you a few questions." Morgan greeted the head nurse.

"Uh, I guess if you make it quick." She said.

"Ma'am, is there a man here who has a tattoo right here?" Reid asked, showing her exactly where Kristy had touched his arm. He could still feel her cold fingers.

"Uh, you know, I think I do know someone. He doesn't work in this part though." She replied.

"Where does he work?" Morgan asked.

"I think he's a transcriptionist." She replied. "He comes down here sometimes to get stuff."

"Thanks." Morgan and Reid said.

Morgan grabbed his cell phone.

"Gideon we got a lead-" Morgan started to say.

"We got a name. Nathaniel Grimow." Gideon said. "He's here at work, his office is on the third floor. We're headed there now."

"We're on the second. Where do we go?" Morgan asked.

"3E" Gideon replied as they hung up.

"That's him." Kristy said quietly.

A half hour ago, Reid had been standing outside Nathanial Grimow's office, waiting with the others. Grimow came out quietly, and on his right wrist, there was a red heart with a date on it.

'This has got to be him.' Reid thought.

All that was needed now was a DNA test. Gideon, Emily, and Morgan had taken him down to the station and also try to find why his name hadn't appeared in any of the files. Reid had decided to find Kristy and tell her. Before they had taken Grimow, Reid had grabbed his hospital ID, which had his photo on it.

Kristy had just confirmed that Grimow was the man. She now looked ready to puke.

"Are you feeling okay?" Reid asked.

"I'm feeling fine. I feel a lot better now that I've had the memory. I mean, it really did scare me. I didn't expect it to all of a sudden appear in my head. I expected it would come slowly, but all of sudden I could feel him grabbing me, and…and" Kristy started shaking again.

Reid put his hand on her shoulder.

"It's okay. You were really brave and a lot of girls were helped because of you." Reid reminded her.

Kristy smiled. "Thanks. What happens now?"

"Well, we're going to do a DNA test. We're also going to see if he will confess." Reid replied. "Have they told you what's going to happen with you?" Reid asked.

"I think the cops are trying to say that I might have a bleed in my brain and I should be kept overnight for observation." Kristy spat out sarcastically. "Stupid cops."

Reid laughed.

"It might be best. We don't know that this won't have any more effects. You should be fine thought, especially by tomorrow if nothing has happened." Reid assured her.

Kristy nodded. "How did you see me? I heard that one detective threatening you."

Reid smiled. "The nurse was greatly moved by my badge."

Reid's insides twisted guiltily, remembering the poor pharmacist.

Kristy laughed. She then became very pensive.

"My Mom and Dad will come back tomorrow. They still don't really understand what happened because I didn't really tell them." Kristy said. "Can, can you stay with me for a while?" Kristy asked timidly. "I don't want to be alone quite yet."

"Sure." Reid said.

He wasn't used to someone trusting him this much, but he liked it. It was a relief to the negative feelings he had been having so much lately.

"Hey sweetie." Garcia greeted him. Kristy and Reid had been talking for a long time and his cell phone just rang.

"Garcia, what's up?" He asked.

"Well, I just got the DNA sample from Hotch. And you are on speaker with the rest of the team as of now."

"Morgan." Morgan intercepted.

"Hey hot stuff. Put me on speaker." Garcia ordered.

"You're on speaker." Morgan said.

"Hey Morgan. What's been going on?" Reid asked.

"Hey Reid. Not a lot. The guy gave up a sample pretty quick, but then his lawyer showed up and he hasn't said anything since." Morgan replied.

"Well, according to the sample you sent, your man is, wait, no!" Garcia said.

"What Garcia?" Morgan asked.

"I don't know. The machine is telling me that they don't match." Garcia said quietly.

"You sure?" Reid asked impatiently, as he stepped out of the room so that Kristy wouldn't hear.

"Yes. All I'm getting is that unsub is of relation to Grimow." Garcia said.

"That can't be right. Kristy ID'ed him." Reid practically yelled.

"Reid, calm down." Hotch spoke. "We'll look into Grimow's relatives and find the guy."

"That's going to be hard sir. According to his file, Grimow's parents and son are dead. He was an only child. Anything after that wouldn't show this much relation." Garcia said. "All I can tell you is what this machine is telling me. I'm faxing over the results, you can look for yourself." Garcia said, worry in her voice.

"Okay. Thanks mama." Morgan said. Garcia hung up on her line.

"Reid, we'll send them over to the hospital. You can take a look at them. We'll see if we can get him to talk because someone related to him did this." Gideon assured Reid.

Reid waited impatiently outside the nurses station where the fax was being sent. He was angry. Grimow fit the profile. He was 49. He had the tattoo. He worked a menial job in a hospital where he had access to Etomidate. Kristy ID'd him. What was wrong?

Unfortunately, Garcia had been correct. The DNA line of the original sample did not match Grimow's. Reid cursed and begrudgingly went back into Kristy's room.

"What happened?" She demanded.

"Kristy," Reid began slowly, "the DNA, it didn't provide a match."

Kristy stared at Reid for a moment.

"What are you talking about? It's him! He did it." Kristy said firmly.

"He couldn't have Kristy. The DNA says he didn't." Reid sadly replied.

"But he did!" Kristy yelled.

"Kristy, look." Reid said. He gave her the sheet of the DNA lines.

"But…how is that…how could he…what the…" She began to mutter.

She was silent for many minutes as she stared at the DNA sheet. Reid sat down and waited for her.

"What's this second line?" Kristy asked.

Reid looked at the paper. Sure enough, on the DNA samples, there were two lines instead of one.

"Well, sometimes in twins, the DNA is shared so much that they can appear secondarily in later DNA." Reid explained.

"So, could an identical twin done this?" Kristy asked.

"No. Grimow's an only child." Reid replied.

"Then why is a secondary line of DNA here?" Kristy asked.

"I don't know." Reid replied. "Sometimes, there are genetic defects that could cause this. Not enough research has been done in this field to determine most oddities that appear."

Kristy sighed. She didn't say much else the rest of the night. Reid kept calling back to the station, but nothing was turning up. No one of relation to Nathanial Grimow could have done this. They released him.

Reid had decided to stay at the hospital until Kristy fell asleep. She was taking this incredibly hard. The team called it another tired night at 10.

Around 11, Reid's eyelids started to droop while Kristy appeared wired. After an hour, Reid couldn't take it anymore and started to go off into a doze which later led to sleep.

His sleep was fitful. He kept having nightmares, all of them involving someone he cared about getting hurt. Reid kept waking up. Around 4, he couldn't take it anymore. His body cried for the Dilaudid, which was safely stored in Reid's satchel.

With Kristy finally safely sleeping, Reid stealthily walked into the room's bathroom. Taking into consideration the time of night, he knew he could give himself a full dose. It would be enough to satisfy his craving and give him enough rest to make it until morning.

As he readied the needle, he swore he heard something. He looked up for a moment, hoping not to get caught. It was silent again, so he returned to his work. He finally let the drug back, and he felt elated. Reid wanted more, but he knew it would have to wait.

Then, he was sure he heard something. Reid opened the door and through his blurry vision saw a large, dark figure. Reid tried to make out what was happening, but his senses were greatly impaired. The next thing he knew, something sharp pierced his neck, and suddenly it became too difficult to keep his eyes open… too difficult to try to think…

Reid never did feel of his head hitting the floor.